Interview with Anti-Extractivist Mayor Ramiro Trujillo (sidebar)

Interview with Anti-Extractivist Mayor Ramiro Trujillo (sidebar)

"We have seen that there is bountiful knowledge and bravery here to defend the right to water. We are always ...
A Hunger Striker Becomes Chile’s Conscience

A Hunger Striker Becomes Chile’s Conscience

On January 28, Patricia Troncoso, a prisoner hospitalized in the city of Chillán, in southern Chile, ended her hunger­ strike ...
Haiti

Haiti

"When people understand the way the winds are blowing, they trim their sails accordingly." With these words, Andrew Young pressured ...
Central America

Central America

Events in Guatemala and El Salvador in the months since the Sandinista victory have provided a gold mine for "domino ...
PINOCHET STANDS FIRM The Opposition Remains Divided

PINOCHET STANDS FIRM The Opposition Remains Divided

Policemen patrolled the flower beds, soldiers in full battle dress guarded palm trees and fountains. General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte was ...
Continuing Military Power in Guatemala

Continuing Military Power in Guatemala

When Guatemalan Bishop Juan Gerardi was found lying in a pool of blood this past April, his face beaten in ...
Guatemala: Peasant Massacre

Guatemala: Peasant Massacre

Published in the July/August 1978 issue of the NACLA Report on the Americas, "Public Debt and Private Profit."  "It took ...